Quotes about bridge
bridges safety needs
If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety... Warren Buffett
bridges would-be cost
In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.
bridges information way
The approach and strategies are very similar in that you gather all the information you can and then keep adding to that base of information as things develop. You do whatever the probabilities indicated based on the knowledge that you have at that time, but you are always willing to modify your behaviour or your approach as you get new information. In bridge, you behave in a way that gets the best from your partner. And in business, you behave in the way that gets the best from your managers and your employees.
bridges pounds principles
When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.
bridges people groups
A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far. Ward Churchill
bridges brave bravery
How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. Thomas B. Macaulay
bridges paris my-best-friend
After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket. James A. Baldwin
bridges iron skeletons
Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own skeleton aching. I feel in my bones the sharp ache of the frost in the girders of the overhead railway, in the iron-work of balconies, in bridges, tramlines, lamp-standards, latrines. The iron throbs and shrinks, the stone and the bricks ache dully, the plaster is numb. Christopher Isherwood
bridges justice doe
If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built. Frantz Fanon
bridges metaphor possibility
A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor. Jeanette Winterson
bridges giving shapes
Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically. Jim Capaldi
bridges giving abstract
You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing. Jim Henson
bridges car opinion
My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars. Elon Musk
bridges community together
I have put together resources from the private and philanthropic communities to help provide a bridge because you've got to get the federal money. You've got to get the state money, but I'm going to do everything I can. And I will be with Flint all the way through this crisis in whatever capacity I am. Hillary Clinton
bridges mind painting
I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator. Eugene Delacroix
bridges shadow awareness
Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. “A leap from this bridge will set me free. Ernst Junger
bridges water promise
A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water Gregory David Roberts
bridges water risk
All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under. Holly Near
bridges shapes longing
Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross. Guy Gavriel Kay
bridges design essentials
The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right architecture. It's like building a bridge. Once the main lines of the structure are right, then the details miraculously fit. The problem is the overall design. Freeman Dyson
bridges february march
February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.] George Herbert
bridges names mind
There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at the command airlock when he boarded. And on the bridge - Kirk! The mere name made Spock groan inwardly as he remembered what it had cost him to turn away from that welcome. T'hy'la! Gene Roddenberry
bridges sin abyss
To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the bridge. Frederick Buechner
bridges forget praise
Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over. Fannie Lou Hamer
bridges burn ended guys remained six stayed supposed turned
So six guys got letters, two have been renewed. They stayed here, remained quiet, didn't burn any bridges and did what they were supposed to do. As it turned out, we ended up not renewing four. Steve Spurrier
bridges black demand
It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief. Henry Louis Gates
bridges rivers light
Far below ran the silver ribbon of the East River, braceleted by shining bridges, flecked by boats as small as flyspecks, splitting the shining banks of light that were Manhattan and Brooklyn on either side. Cassandra Clare
bridge connection gap human local piece
The big piece out here is human intelligence, and we don't have any. We don't have a connection to local leaders, and we've never been able to bridge the gap with them.
bridges enable environment guests ideal leave offer paul products provides saint services staying
The beauty, amenities and services at The Bridges of Saint Paul will be an ideal environment for Westin. This partnership will enable Westin to offer guests staying with us in St. Paul the services, products and amenities that provides them a sense of rejuvenation, so that they may feel better when they leave than when they arrived.
bridge rainbow surest
That is the surest way to bridge a rainbow to the 22nd century. Tadatoshi Akiba
bridges business common doctors domestic general homes insure laid nursing pay promote property protect provide roads schools taxes
Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine.
bridge college earned level opportunity students
Students at this level have earned this opportunity to be more independent, as this is a bridge to their upcoming college level experiences.
bridge effort
It's important that we make an effort to bridge this gap.